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Common principles guide formatting of large-scale article components in most cases. Complicated articles may be best modeled on the layout of an existing article of appropriate structure. Lead section The lead should define the topic and summarize the body of the article with appropriate weight. Linking
Articles start with a lead section (WP:CREATELEAD) summarising the most important points of the topic.The lead section is the first part of the article; it comes above the first header, and may contain a lead image which is representative of the topic, and/or an infobox that provides a few key facts, often statistical, such as dates and measurements.
A topic must not cherry-pick only the best articles to become featured together. For overview topics, every article within the scope of the topic that is not included in the topic should also be within the scope of a non-lead article that is included in the topic. The topic has an introductory and summary lead article or list.
Whether a policy or guideline is an accurate description of best practice is determined through consensus. On discussion pages and in edit summaries, shortcuts are often used to refer to policies and guidelines; for example, WP:NOR (no original research), WP:NPOV (neutral point of view) and WP:BLP (biographies of living persons).
A title should be a recognizable name or description of the topic, balancing the criteria of being natural, sufficiently precise, concise, and consistent with those of related articles. For formatting guidance see the Wikipedia:Article titles § Article title format section, noting the following:
Some articles suffer from much higher levels of stress and strife, usually as a reflection of political or social conflicts in the greater world. Best practice on such articles is to begin in talk: try to open a discussion first, before making any changes to the article, paying close attention to the talk page practices given above.
Some Start-class articles can be merged to have enough content, though this practice is controversial to many editors. A good Start-class article contains all of the above criteria and: A few sections to categorize information; No {{stub}} template at the end; Providing reliable information from reputable primary, secondary or tertiary source
The featured articles are what we believe to be the best articles in Wikipedia. Before promotion to featured status, articles are reviewed at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates for compelling prose, accuracy, neutrality, and completeness, according to our featured article criteria. Wikipedians tend to be proud of featured articles to which ...